pronunciamento
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish pronunciamento. Doublet of pronouncement.
Noun
editpronunciamento (plural pronunciamentos)
- A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation. [from 19th c.]
- 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6:
- I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.
- 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249:
- After assembling an army in Catalonia, he marched on Madrid, issuing en route a pronunciamento calling on the Queen Regent to banish Valenzuela and to accept him as her first minister.
- In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection. [from 19th c.]
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 156:
- [H]e did not want to see Brazil suffer the same fate as those South American countries whose history has been nothing but a succession of barrack-room pronunciamentos.
Italian
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpronunciamento m (plural pronunciamenti)
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Noun
editpronunciamento m (plural pronunciamentos)
- pronouncement; proclamation (formal public announcement)
- Synonym: proclamação
- (phonology) pronunciation (the act of speaking a word or phoneme)
- Synonyms: pronúncia, pronunciação
Related terms
editRomanian
editNoun
editpronunciamento n (plural pronunciamentouri)
- Obsolete form of pronunciament.
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | pronunciamento | pronunciamentoul | pronunciamentouri | pronunciamentourile | |
genitive-dative | pronunciamento | pronunciamentoului | pronunciamentouri | pronunciamentourilor | |
vocative | pronunciamentoule | pronunciamentourilor |
References
edit- pronunciamento in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
editNoun
editpronunciamento m (plural pronunciamentos)
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